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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 27, 2020

To enhance the WebStore application to support the pagination strategy -"GENERIC"

PaginationStrategies are set to perform ServerSidePagination or MixedPagination. It helps to fetch the records in batches. Store supports NEXTPAGE Strategy. But not all the OOTB List APIs support NEXTPAGE Strategy. By default, only 'Generic' strategy is supported by List APIs. Enhancement is needed in WebStore to support GENERIC PaginationStrategy.

What is your industry? Retail
How will this idea be used?

In the case of B2B business, the number of orderlines in an order, the number of shipments or invoices are expected to be high. Fetching all the records in one transaction and displaying in UI impacts UI performance. So the recommended way is to fetch the records in batches.

PaginationStrategies are set to perform ServerSidePagination or MixedPagination. It helps to fetch the records in batches. Store supports NEXTPAGE Strategy. But not all the OOTB List APIs support NEXTPAGE Strategy. By default, only 'Generic' strategy is supported by List APIs.